Rendez-Vous
Author: Wim Pauwels
Publisher: Beta-Plus
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782875500373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rendez-Vous presents sojourns into the living and working spaces of celebrated artists and creatives.
Author: Wim Pauwels
Publisher: Beta-Plus
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782875500373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rendez-Vous presents sojourns into the living and working spaces of celebrated artists and creatives.
Author: Philippe de Montebello
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2014-09-16
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0500772258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fruits of a lifetime of experience by a cultural colossus, Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in its history, distilled in conversations with an acclaimed critic Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper—all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago—this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking. De Montebello shares the sense of excitement recorded by Goethe in his autobiography—"akin to the emotion experienced on entering a House of God"—but also reflects on why these secular temples might nevertheless be the "worst possible places to look at art." But in the end both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter and some of the intense creations of human beings throughout our long history.
Author: Christian Briend
Publisher: Art Book Magazine Distribution
Published: 2019-09-16T00:00:00+02:00
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 2821601336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Featuring a broad selection of paintings, sculptures and photographs coming mainly from the Centre Pompidou collections, Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition catalogue “Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co.” focuses on this highly distinctive period in French art when young painters, sculptors and photographers flocked to early-20th-century Paris from all over the world to make a decisive contribution to the city’s art scene. Most notably from Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and even Japan, these formally inventive artists – Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Kees van Dongen, Tsuguharu Foujita, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso among them – who would later become known as the “School of Paris”, rivalled the greatest French artists of the time.
Author: Justine Levy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999-03-15
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0684846322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Raised by parents who came of age in the sixties and went on to achieve worldwide fame, Louise has survived their celebrity, their turbulent marriage, and the divorce that left her in the care of her devoted father and on the periphery of her mother's chaotic life. Now eighteen, Louise waits for her long-absent mother in a cafe. Carefully balancing anticipation with the fear that her mother will once again disappoint her, she digs deep into a store of memories. Her recollections of childhood incidents bring her face to face with the reasons behind her mother's self-destructive behavior and clarify her own complicated feelings for a deeply flawed parent.Writing with wry humor and sometimes savage irony, Levy captures the essence of a love at once profoundly troubled and indestructible. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Bernard Blistène
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Published: 2003-07-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780892072880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edited by Lisa Dennison and Bernard BlistAne. Essays by Mark C. Taylor, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-Louis Cohen and Stanley Cavell.
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A haunting, disorienting, brilliantly constructed novel, Djinn is the story of a young man who joins a clandestine organization under the command of an alluring, androgynous American girl, Djinn. Having agreed to wear dark glasses and carry a can like a blind man, he comes to realize, through bizarre encounters, recurring visual images, and fractured time sequences he experiences as part of his undisclosed mission, that he is, in a sense, helplessly blind. His search for the meaning of his mission and for possible clues to the identity of the mysterious Djinn, becomes a quest for his own identity in an ever-shifting time-space continuum. His growing obsession with solving the mystery becomes the reader's own until, through a surprising shift in narrative perspective, the reader too becomes lost in the dimension between past and future." -- Publisher's description
Author: Thuan Le Elston
Publisher: Rand-Smith Books
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781950544295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inspired by the tales of four grandmothers - Thuan Le Elston's and her husband's - Rendezvous at the Altar: From Vietnam to Virginia traces Anne's Southern upbringing to her Mad Men-like married life; Kim's family as they survive French colonialism and the Vietnam War; Mary's transformations through the Great Depression and two marriages; and Ty's migration from Hanoi businesswoman to Arizona matriarch. Through a mother's journal to her children and the four grandmothers' narrations that bridge punk band names to the Temple of Literature, Elston compares gender roles, parenting, aging, and dying in a multicultural family.
Author: Tony Sandoval
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781942367284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Tony Sandoval was born and raised in northwestern Mexico, where the temptation to cross the border in the US ultimately becomes a matter of the heart. Drawn by the need to reunited with his American girlfriend and faced with an insurmountable visa process standing in the way of their relationship, he makes the ultimate romantic gesture: smuggling himself across the border, despite the dangers he'll face from the blistering heat, vicious bandits, barbed wire, and -- most daunting of all -- the US border patrol. An autobiographical account by the three-time Eisner-nominated writer/artist, this true story shines reliable light on the hot-topic immigration issue in the news today."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780393313802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents twenty-seven short fiction stories by twentieth-century British author Patrick O'Brian, best known for his series of naval adventures.